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Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.

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  1. a. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
  2. a. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
  3. a. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
  4. adj. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
  5. adj. excessively greedy and grasping
  6. adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities
  7. j:100 s. excessively greedy and grasping